Paris,
June 28 - According to a report received from the front today
James Hall of Boston, American aviator in the Lafayette
estadrille was killed in an air fight against seven German
adversaries. Hall made his first flight as a Lafayette aviator
Sunday. On that day he courageously attacked an enemy place. the
Boche struck back and Hall fell a thousand yards but finally
gained control of his machine. Details of the encounter in which
he is reported to have lost his life are lacking. A list of the
Lafayette escadrille personnel as furnished the United press by
the Paris war office does not list a James Hall of Boston and a
complete list of Americans training at French camps does not list
such an aviator. It is possible he was a civilian aviator who
paid his own training expenses and then enlisted. James Normal
Hall of Colfax, Iowa, appears on the list of the Lafayette
escadrille. He was attached to this squadron June 23, 1917 after
training at Camp D'Avord and is the Normal Hall who wrote
"Kitchener's Mob". He was formerly with the British army.